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Bene Tleilax
18 entries tagged Bene Tleilax, 18 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Bene Tleilax: gholas, Face Dancers, tanks and Face Dancer.
- Tylwyth Waff: the Tleilaxu Master who bet the Bene Tleilax on the SisterhoodTylwyth Waff was a Tleilaxu Master and Masheikh, tacit leader of the Ruling Council when the Honored Matres returned. He had lived thousands of years through ghola replacements, allied with the Bene Gesserit in the belief they were true Zensunni, and died on Rakis when the Honored Matres destroyed it.
- Planet of the Handlers: futar homeworld in the ScatteringThe Planet of the Handlers was the name given by the crew of the no-ship Ithaca to an arboreal world in Human Scattering space, homeworld of the futars and of the masters who guided them. Its hospitality concealed Enhanced Face Dancers serving Omnius and Erasmus, and the landing there cost the ship far more than it knew at the time.
- Bene Tleilax: gholas, Face Dancers, tanksReviled across the Imperium and needed by every part of it. The Tleilaxu axolotl tanks produced gholas, Face Dancers and Twisted Mentats to order.
- BijazBijaz was a Tleilaxu dwarf, prescient and immune to the prescience of others, who spoke in riddles and rhymes. A tool of the conspiracy against Emperor Muad'Dib, he carried the names of the plotters and planted a hidden command in the Hayt ghola to kill the Emperor in his grief.
- Enhanced Face DancerEnhanced Face Dancers were a refined breed of Tleilaxu shape changer first released into deep space by Hidar Fen Ajidica and later improved by the Thinking Machines. Undetectable even by the Bene Gesserit, they served Omnius and Erasmus while secretly pursuing their own ascendancy, until Erasmus destroyed them all with a hidden kill switch.
- Face DancerFace Dancers were a sterile race of metamorphic transhumans engineered by the Bene Tleilax in their axolotl tanks. Able to replicate the form, voice, and personality of any human, they served as entertainers, spies, and assassins, and in their final refined breed became weapons of conquest.
- GholaA ghola was an artificially regrown human, replicated from the cells of a dead individual in the axlotl tanks of the Bene Tleilax. Originally created without the memories of the source being, gholas were later made to recover those memories through trauma, a technique that shaped the secret history of the Imperium.
- HaytHayt was the name given to the first Duncan Idaho ghola, grown by the Bene Tleilax and presented to Emperor Paul Atreides as a gift that concealed a weapon. Trained as a Mentat, he came to love Alia Atreides before recovering his original memories in the crisis that followed Chani's death.
- Hidar Fen AjidicaMaster Researcher Hidar Fen Ajidica was a Bene Tleilax scientist who led Project Amal on the captured world of Ix for twenty years, seeking an artificial spice. He schemed to break from the Imperium with his own army and Face Dancers before dying during the Great Spice War.
- KhroneKhrone was the true leader of the Tleilaxu Enhanced Face Dancers, a secret Myriad that posed as servants of the reborn thinking machines while plotting to inherit the universe once humanity and the machines had destroyed one another.
- Piter de VriesPiter de Vries was a Twisted Mentat developed by the Bene Tleilax who served Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. An ambitious and impatient sadist, he devised the conspiracy that destroyed House Atreides before dying in the trap left by Duke Leto's poisoned tooth.
- ScytaleScytale is the Tleilaxu Face Dancer in Dune Messiah's conspiracy against Paul Atreides. He kills the veteran Farok, takes the shape of Otheym's daughter Lichna, and dies holding a knife over Paul's newborn twins. A Tleilaxu Master of the same name returns in Chapterhouse: Dune as the last of his kind.
- Stone burnerA stone burner was a particularly destructive weapon that released J-rays to dissolve eye tissue and blind every creature within its radius, while also capable of immense physical destruction. Powered by an atomic charge yet legally distinct from atomics, it was the weapon used to blind Emperor Paul Atreides.
- Suboid RevoltThe Suboid Revolt was a rebellion in which the suboid lower class of Ix, secretly stirred up by the Bene Tleilax and backed by Imperial Sardaukar, rose against House Vernius over alleged violations of the Butlerian Jihad. It ended with the fall of Ix and the exile of the Vernius family.
- TleilaxTleilax is the lone planet of the Thalim star and the homeworld of the Bene Tleilax, a religious and xenophobic people known for their Face Dancers, their gholas and the twisted Mentats trained there.
- Tleilaxu MasterTleilaxu Masters were the elite caste of the Bene Tleilax, served by gholas and Face Dancers and immune to the Bene Gesserit Voice. The ten Masheikhs of the Ruling Council stood at the summit of their order.
- Tuk KeedairTuk Keedair was a Tlulaxa slaver who became the business partner of Aurelius Venport and co-founder of VenKee Enterprises. His chance discovery of melange on Arrakis built a commercial empire, though his life ended as a prisoner among the desert Zensunni he had once enslaved.
- UxtalUxtal was a Lost Tleilaxu scribe spared in the Face Dancer purge of Tleilax and forced into servitude. He grew gholas of Vladimir Harkonnen, Paul Atreides, and a Tleilaxu Master for masters who held his life hostage, and died devoured by sligs near Bandalong.